Attachement for bread kneading and molding machines.



No. 896,396. PATENTED AUG. 18, 1908.

- A. C. & E. J. KRUSE.

7 ATTACHMENT FOR BREAD KNEADING AND MOLDING MACHINES.

PATENTED AUG. 18,1908.

I 0. & E. J. KRUSE. ATTACHMENT FOR BREAD KNEADING AND MOLDING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12, 1907.

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nurrnn s rns PATENT OFFICE.

CARL KRUSE AND ERNST J. KRUSE, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

ATTAGHLEENT FOR BREAD KNEADING AND MOLDING- MACHINES.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CARL KRUSE and ERNST J. KRUsE, citizens of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments for Bread Kneading and Molding Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in molding attachments for bread kneading machines, the present embodiment of the invention being particularly designed for use in connection with a machine of the character disclosed in our Letters Patent of the United States, No. 841,408, dated January th, 1907, although it is to be understood that the invention is equally applicable to kneading machines of other types and constructions.

The invention has for its object a removable attachment for a bread kneading machine so arranged that it may be readily attached to and suspended from the end of the main machine, the invention providing means whereby one standard size kneading machine may be used with a number of attachments of this character of different sizes or widths, according to the length of loaf that it is desired to roll through the attachment and thus mold.

The invention consists in certain constructions, arrangements and combinations of the parts that we shall hereinafter fully describe and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acguire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the dis charge end of a bread kneading and molding machine to which the improved attachment of our invention is secured in operative relation; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the attachment; and, Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of the rolling blade or apaon and its attachment mounted at one en Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

For the purpose of obtaining a complete Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 12, 1907.

lliatented. Aug. 18, 1908.

Serial No. 378,671.

disclosure of the present invention, we have illustrated a portion of a bread kneading machine, 1 designating the upper sills of the framework that are provided at their rear ends with divergent hooks 2, the said framework being provided below the hooks 2 and in advance of said hooks, as shown, with offset lugs 3.

4 designates one of the main wheels or pulleys of the machine, a sprocket wheel 5 in the present instance being mounted on the same shaft with said pulley.

Our improved bread molding attachment comprises an elongated casing, consisting of side bars 6 to which the base board 7 is se cured in any desired manner. The said bars 6 at their-front ends are provided with forwardly inclined upper edges 8, and an. inclined feeding board 9 is secured to and be tween the said side bars parallel to the said edges. At their front ends, the side bars 6 of the casing are provided with downwardly facing hooks 10 that are adapted to take over the outwardly projecting lugs 3 of the kneading machine framework so as to swing the attachment on the rear end of the main machine. Chains 10 or similar flexible connecting members are secured at one end to the casing and are adapted to be engaged with the hooks 2 of the framework, so as to hold the attachment atthe proper inclination on the kneading machine at the rear or discharge end thereof. 7

The top board 11 of the casing is provided at its front edge with apertured ears 12 adapted to receive the spindle 13 of a roller 14, said spindle being mounted in bearings 15 secured to the inclined edges of the said bars 6. An endless belt or apron 16 passes around the roller 14 and also around a similar roller 17 at the rear end of the to board 11. This last named roller is mounte on a shaft 18 which is journaled in boxings 19 and which extends through slots 20 in longitudinally extending bearing lates 21 secured to v screws Working in sockets in brackets 25 roj t W yf iQWh saidibars 9 e casing.

The apron maybe dIfiYQI linganymwfiy, "and;

in the present instance we have shown for this urpose a sprocket Wheel .25 witha sproc et chain 26 extending over said wheeland over a-similar, though preferably smaller sprocket Wheel 27 on the splndle 13. In the. practical operation, the dough,=as-it is discharged from the kneading machine,

Will-be fed down the slopingboard 9 into the casing of the molding attachment and will be passed underneath the endless'apronor belt 16 and rolled rearwardly into the casing between the lower lap of the beltymade substantially unyielding by the top board 11 and the bottom board, or base 70f 'the"casing.

'It will thus be molded into the desired length of loaves according --tothe distance apart of the side bars 6,:andbe discharged'at t e rear end (of the moldingattachment.

By meansofthe screws-23, the top'board' 11 may be adjusted to diflerent elevations relative to the base board 7.

From the foregoing descriptionin connection with the accompanying drawings, it Will be seen that we have providedoa very simple,

durable and eflicient construction of bread molding attachment for kneading machines, whereby. the kneading imachine may be of .anystandard'size,while the attachments may be of diiferentsizes, according to theleng't or Widths of loafthat it is desiredto form.

Having thus described theinvention, What is claimed as new is:

1. :The combination with a bread kneading machineprovided at its discharge end with a air of outstanding hooks and with a'pair of ugs belowethefhooks, of a molding attach- 'ment comprising a.-casing provided at "one end with hooks adapted to engage the said lugs, flexible connecting members attached to said casing and engaging said ihooks -Whereby fto detachably connect the casing-to the rear end of the kneading machine, the casing of said attachment including a' ba'se board-and a top board spaced thereirom, rolla e va. 5 1 1 ,e i th a ing; a endless apron extending around said rollers With its lower lap passing underneath the top board, and means for actuating said a ron.

2 (Ehecombination wit a breadikneading machine, of amolding attachment in alinement with the rear end thereof, a pivotal connection between the adjacent ends of the machine and attachment,'connecting members secured to'the attachment'in the rear of such pivotal connection and arranged for adj ustmachine, of a molding attachment in alinement with' the rear end of the machine, the

4; Thecombination with a'bread kneading machine provided at its discharge end With a pair of outstanding hooks and with a pair of ugsjbelow'the =hooks', 'ofa molding attachment comprising a casing provided at one end with hooks adapted to engage said lugs, .chains attached -to said casing at the sides thereof and designed to engage the hooks, -Whereby to detachably connect the casing at the rear-end of the kneading machine at different inclined positions, an endless apron mountedto travel in said casing, and means for driving said apron. r.

-In" 'testlmo'nywher'eof' we aflix our signat'ures in'presfence of two Witnesses.

CARL KRUSE. [Ly-s] ERNST J. KRUSE. [L; s.-] Witnesses:

GLAUS,

' =P; DENNINGER.

adjacent endsof the machine and attachment beingsecured to each other with the end of the attachment'insuspended relation, 1 and suspension members connected to the I machine and to the attachment in the rear of :the firstnamed connection. 

